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PUBLIC WELFARE FOUNDATION LAUNCHES SUMMER PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT CAMPAIGN “SEE YOU, SEE YOUTH”


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Narrative Marketing campaign Centered on Youth Voices to Fight Summer time Information Headlines The place Black and LatinX Youth Grow to be Scapegoats for Elevated Crime

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES, June 28, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — Public Welfare Basis (PWF), the nation’s solely endowment fund devoted completely to investing in new transformative approaches to youth and grownup felony justice, at present introduced the launch of its summer season public service announcement marketing campaign “See You, See Youth.” PWF has traveled the nation asking younger folks what they need to see – for his or her group and themselves – sooner or later. This narrative marketing campaign is designed to assist leaders shaping insurance policies and public opinion see past headlines written to drive clicks and enhance promoting income and somewhat concentrate on the voices of youth who characterize a few of this nation’s Most worthy sources.

Summer time is just too usually a time when violent crime can enhance in communities the place useful resource droughts are a typical incidence. Younger folks in these communities – predominantly Black and Latinx – usually turn into scapegoats for the failures of the collective society. When youth make poor choices that place them at ends with the regulation, society is conditioned to worry them, somewhat than query the dearth of thriving faculties, pro-social actions, {and professional} coaching alternatives accessible to these youth and their communities. Our nation should grapple with the long-term impacts of that selection for the youth themselves and for the remainder of society.

Public Welfare Basis created this marketing campaign to spotlight the voices of youth and organizations on the frontlines offering options which might be reworking communities. The challenges are sophisticated, however our nation’s younger folks deserve our greatest efforts and concepts.

“As a substitute of fearing younger those that our nation has each ignored and hyper-criminalized, we have to worry for them, for his or her emotions, futures, households, and formation. We have to put the YOU again in youth. If we might see ourselves in these youth, we might collectively demand higher outcomes for his or her future,” stated Public Welfare Basis President and CEO Candice C. Jones.

Public Welfare Basis’s ”See You, See Youth” marketing campaign was developed based mostly on info highlighting that incarcerating youth does not make us safer. Listed here are a few of the details:

• Hurt prevention and discount efforts value lower than incarceration and boast higher outcomes.

• Powerful on crime ways like isolation and solitary confinement additional traumatize younger folks and damage outcomes, doing extra hurt than good.

• Fewer than a 3rd of youth incarcerated in juvenile services have been accused of or adjudicated for a critical violent offense (homicide, sexual assault, armed theft, or aggravated assault).

• Teenage impulsivity is a pure a part of mind improvement. Youngsters’ brains are creating till the mid-20s. As soon as their brains are absolutely developed, the impulsive actions largely finish.

• Black youth are 5 instances extra more likely to be incarcerated than white youth, Native American youth are 3.2 instances extra more likely to be incarcerated than white youth, and Latino youth are 2 instances extra more likely to be incarcerated than white youth, in response to the Haywood Burns Institute.

Please comply with Public Welfare Basis on social and go to seeyouth.us to study extra and listen to straight from younger folks combating for a extra simply nation. Since its founding, the Basis has remodeled 5,700 grants totaling greater than $700 million. With greater than $620 million in present property, Public Welfare Basis appears to be like for strategic factors the place its funds could make a major distinction. The Basis focuses its grant-making in some tough and sometimes ignored social justice areas the place it believes it will possibly function a catalyst for reform in grownup and youth justice.

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About Public Welfare Basis

For 75 years, Public Welfare Basis has supported efforts to advance justice and alternative for folks in want. In its 75-year historical past, the Basis has remodeled 5,700 grants totaling greater than $700 million. In the present day, the Basis’s efforts concentrate on catalyzing a transformative strategy to justice that’s community-led, restorative, and racially simply via investments in felony justice and youth justice reforms.

For extra info go to www.publicwelfare.org and www.justicebyanymeans.org.

Comply with PWF on their social channels:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/PublicWelfare

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/publicwelfare/

Fb: https://www.fb.com/publicwelfarefdn

Jennifer McIntosh
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“See You, See Youth” Public Welfare Basis Narrative Marketing campaign



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